List of violin sonatas

A

Ella Adayevskaya

Sonata Greca for Violin or Clarinet and Piano (1880)

Charles-Valentin Alkan

Grand Duo Concertant (sonata) in F-sharp minor, Op. 21 (c. 1840)

Alexander Arutiunian

Poem-sonata for violin and piano (1985)

Kurt Atterberg

Sonata (for violin, cello, viola or horn, with piano) in B minor, Op. 27 (1925)

Lera Auerbach

Sonata No. 1 for violin and piano (Skorski)

Sonata No. 2 "September 11" for violin and piano (Skorski)

B

Grażyna Bacewicz

5 violin sonatas with piano

2 solo sonatas

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

12 for violin with continuo and cello, five for violin and keyboard

Johann Christian Bach

nine (Opp. 10 and 20), also several flute sonatas that can be played with violin

Johann Sebastian Bach

3 solo sonatas (and 3 partitas)

6 violin sonatas with keyboard (also 3 with continuo)

Béla Bartók

Early sonata for violin and piano

Sonata No. 1 for violin and piano, 1921

Sonata No. 2 for violin and piano, 1922

Sonata for solo violin, 1944

Arnold Bax

Violin Sonata in G minor (1901) (recently recorded on ASV but a rarity) ([1])

Sonata No. 1 in E major, first version 1920/1, revised 1945 ([2], [3])

Sonata No. 2 in D major, 1915/1921 ([4])

Sonata No. 3 in G minor, 1927 ([5])

Sonata in F major (alternate version of his Nonet) 1940 ([6])

Amy Beach

Violin Sonata in A minor (1896)

Ludwig van Beethoven

10 sonatas:

Violin Sonata No. 1

Violin Sonata No. 2

Violin Sonata No. 3

Violin Sonata No. 4

Violin Sonata No. 5

Violin Sonata No. 6

Violin Sonata No. 7

Violin Sonata No. 8

Violin Sonata No. 9

Violin Sonata No. 10

Richard Rodney Bennett

Sonata for violin and piano (1978)

Flint Juventino Beppe

Violin Sonata No.1 Op.50 (1999)

Violin Sonata No.2 Op.56 (2000)

Heinrich Ignaz Biber

Mystery Sonatas for violin and figured bass

Ernest Bloch

Violin Sonata No. 1, 1920

Violin Sonata No. 2 Poeme Mystique, 1924

Theodor Blumer

Violin Sonata

Johannes Brahms

Sonatensatz (sonata scherzo in C minor, for the 'F-A-E' Sonata collaborative sonata undertaken by Dietrich, Schumann and Brahms - 1853)

(early A minor sonata, lost, reported by Remenyi)

Violin Sonata No. 1 in G major, Rain Sonata, Op. 78, 1878–79

Violin Sonata No. 2 in A major, Thun, Op. 100, 1886

Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor, Op. 108, 1886–88

James Francis Brown

Sonata for Violin and Piano (2001. Rev 2003)

Frank Bridge

Violin Sonata (1932)

Ferruccio Busoni

violin sonata (early) in C major, 1876 ([7])

violin sonata Op. 29 in E minor, 1890

violin sonata Op. 36a in E minor, 1898

C

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

Violin Sonata in D minor, Op. 28

Aaron Copland

Violin Sonata (1943) ([8])

Arcangelo Corelli

violin sonatas with continuo (Op. 5, Nos. 1–12)

John Corigliano

Violin Sonata (1963, some sources have 1964) ([9])

D

Claude Debussy

Violin Sonata in G minor, 1917

Frederick Delius

Violin Sonata published posth., 1892 ([10])

Violin Sonata No. 1, 1914

Violin Sonata No. 2, 1923

Violin Sonata No. 3, 1930 ([11], [12])

Edison Denisov

Sonata for violin solo, 1978

Violin Sonata, 1963 ([13])

Ernő Dohnányi

Violin Sonata in C-sharp minor, Op. 21, 1913? ([14])

Avner Dorman

Sonata No.1 for Violin and Piano, 2004

Sonata No.2 for Violin and Piano, 2008

Sonata No.3 for Violin and Piano, 2011

Lucien Durosoir

Violin Sonata in A major, 1921 ([15])

Antonín Dvořák

Violin Sonata in F major, Op. 57, 1880

Violin Sonatina in G major, Op. 100, 1893 ([16])

E

Edward Elgar

Violin Sonata in E minor, Op. 82

Edward Kravchuk

Violin Sonata No. 1

George Enescu

Violin Sonata fragment Torso

Violin Sonata No. 1 in D major, Op. 2

Violin Sonata No. 2 in F minor, Op. 6

Violin Sonata No. 3 on Popular Romanian themes in A minor, Op. 25

Sven Einar Englund

Violin Sonata (1979) ([17])

Iván Eröd

1st Sonata op. 14 (1970)

2nd Sonata op. 74 (2000)

F

Gabriel Fauré

Violin Sonata No. 1 in A major, Op. 13

Violin Sonata No. 2 in E minor, Op. 108

Mohammed Fairouz

Sonata for Solo Violin (2011)

Leonid Feigin

Violin Sonata No. 1 (1963)

Violin Sonata No. 2 (1981)

Zdeněk Fibich

Violin Sonata in D major

Violin Sonatina in D minor, Op. 27

Grzegorz Fitelberg

at least two violin sonatas (A minor, Op. 2, F major, Op. 12: by 1905)

Irving Fine

Violin Sonata

Nicolas Flagello

Violin Sonata

Josef Bohuslav Foerster

Sonata No. 1, Op. 10

Sonata No. 2, sonata quasi fantasia, Op. 177

César Franck

Violin Sonata in A major, M. 8

Peter Racine Fricker

Violin Sonata No. 1, Op. 12 (1950)

Violin Sonata No. 2, Op. 94 (1987)

Robert Fuchs

six violin sonatas

Wilhelm Furtwängler

Violin Sonata No. 1 in D minor (1935)

Violin Sonata No. 2 in D major (1939)

G

Niels Wilhelm Gade

three sonatas: Op. 6 in A, Op. 21 in D minor, Op. 59 in B-flat major

Hans Gál

Violin Sonata, Op. 17 (also at least one other) ([18])

Friedrich Gernsheim

four violin sonatas

Joseph Gibbs

Eight solos (sonatas) for the violin and a thorough bass, 1748

Philip Glass

Sonata for Violin and Piano

Benjamin Godard

Four violin sonatas (No. 1, Op. 1; No. 2, Op. 2; No. 3 in D minor, Op. 9; No. 4 in A-flat major, Op. 12)

Karl Goldmark

Violin Sonata in D major/B minor, Op. 25

Edvard Grieg

Three sonatas:

Violin Sonata No. 1 in F major, Op. 8

Violin Sonata No. 2 in G major, Op. 13

Violin Sonata No. 3 in C minor, Op. 45

Jorge Grundman

What Inspires Poetry. Violin and Piano Sonata (2008)

Warhol in Springtime. Violin and Piano Sonata (2011)

White Sonata: The Child Who Never Wanted to Grow Up. Violin and Piano Sonata (2012)

Phyllis Gummer

Violin sonata

H

Reynaldo Hahn

Sonata in C major (1926)

George Frideric Handel

several violin sonatas. Some are published as his Op. 1 but possibly of varying authenticity.

Karl Amadeus Hartmann

sonatas for violin solo

Swan Hennessy

Sonate en Fa (Style Irlandais), Op. 14 (1905)

Deuxième Sonatine, Op. 80 (1929)

Hans Werner Henze

Sonata for violin and piano (1946)

Sonata for violin solo (1977; revised 1992)

Sonatina for violin and piano (1979) [from the opera Pollicino]

Paul Hindemith

sonatas for violin solo, and four with piano

C. René Hirschfeld

sonata concertante for violin and piano (2006)

Vagn Holmboe

Violin Sonata No. 1, M. 82, 1935

Violin Sonata No. 2, M. 112, 1939

Violin Sonata No. 3, M. 227, 1965

Arthur Honegger

Sonatas Nos. 0–2

Herbert Howells

three violin sonatas

Bertold Hummel

Violin Sonata, Op. 6 (1952) [19]

Violin Sonatina, Op. 35a (1969) [20]

Violin Sonatina, Op. 107a (2001) [21]

I

Vincent d'Indy

Violin Sonata in C major, Op. 59

John Ireland

Violin Sonata No. 1 in D minor (1909)

Violin Sonata No. 2 in A minor (1917)

Charles Ives

four violin sonatas

J

Leoš Janáček

Violin Sonata

David Johnstone

Sonata for violin solo (pub. 2008)

André Jolivet

Violin Sonata (1932)

K

Aram Khachaturian

Sonata for violin and piano

Erich Wolfgang Korngold

Violin Sonata in G major, Op. 6 (1912)

Ernst Krenek

Violin Sonata in F-sharp major, Op. 3 (1919)

6 sonatinas for violin and piano (without Op. number 61. 1921)

Violin Sonata No. 2, Op. 99 (1945)

two sonatas for solo violin (Op. 33, 1925 and Op. 115, 1947)

Toivo Kuula

Violin Sonata in E minor, Op. 1 (1907)

L

Edouard Lalo

Violin Sonata in D major, Op.12

Jean-Marie Leclair

violin sonatas (at least Opp. 1, 2, 5, and 9 are sets of sonatas, some alternately for flute)

Benjamin Lees

3 Violin Sonatas

Paul Le Flem

Violin Sonata in G minor (1905)

Kenneth Leighton

Violin Sonata No. 1, Op. 4 (1949)

Violin Sonata No. 2, Op. 20 (1953)

Guillaume Lekeu

Violin Sonata in G major (1892/93)

Lowell Liebermann

Sonata for Violin and Piano, Op.46 (1994)

Douglas Lilburn

Violin Sonata No. 1 in E flat (1943)

Violin Sonata No. 2 in C (1943)

Violin Sonata No. 3 (1950)

Heitor Villa-Lobos

Violin Sonata No. 1 Sonata-Fantasy No. 1, Désespérance

Violin Sonata No. 2 Sonata-Fantasy

Violin Sonata No. 3

Pietro Locatelli

Sonatas for violin with continuo from Opp. 6 and 8

M

Leevi Madetoja

Sonatina for violin and piano, Op. 18 (1913)

Albéric Magnard

Violin Sonata in G major, Op. 13

Edgar Manas

Sonata for Violin and Piano (1923)

Bohuslav Martinů

Violin Sonatas 1, 2, 3

Giuseppe Martucci

Violin Sonata in G minor, Op. 22

William Mathias

three violin sonatas

John Blackwood McEwen

at least six violin sonatas (No. 6 published 1930 by Oxford University Press)

Nikolai Medtner

Violin Sonata No. 1 in B minor, Op. 21

Violin Sonata No. 2 in G major, Op. 44

Violin Sonata No. 3 Epica in E minor, Op. 57

Felix Mendelssohn

Violin Sonata in F major, 1820

Violin Sonata in F minor, Op. 4

Violin Sonata in F major, 1838

Peter Mennin

Sonata Concertante

Darius Milhaud

at least two violin sonatas with piano, and one with harpsichord

Ernest John Moeran

Sonata for Violin and Piano in E minor

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

some thirty-six violin sonatas

The following have pages:

Violin Sonatas, KV 6–9 (1762–64)

Violin Sonatas, KV 10–15 (1764–65)

Violin Sonatas, KV 26–31 (1766)

Violin Sonata No. 35

Nikolai Myaskovsky

Violin Sonata in F major, Op. 70 (1946–47) ([22])

N

Lior Navok

Violin Sonata

Oskar Nedbal

Violin Sonata in B minor, Op. 9

Carl Nielsen

early sonatas

Violin Sonata in A major, Op. 9

Violin Sonata in G minor/C major, Op. 35

Vítězslav Novák

Violin Sonata in D minor (his 27th work, unpublished "Novák worklist" (in Czech). Retrieved 2007-01-13. )

O

Leo Ornstein

Violin Sonata, Op. 31 (1915)

P

Ignacy Jan Paderewski

Violin Sonata in A minor, Op. 13

Niccolò Paganini

Numerous sonatas for violin with piano or guitar

Hubert Parry

Fantasy-Sonata in B minor for violin & pianoforte (c. 1878)

Violin Sonata in D major (1889)

Robert Paterson

Sonata No. 1 for Violin and Piano (2003)

Dora Pejačević

Sonata for Violin and Piano in D major 'Frühlings-Sonate' Op. 26 (1909)

Sonata for Violin and Piano in B minor 'Slawische Sonate' Op. 43 (1917)

Krzysztof Penderecki

Violin Sonata No. 1 (1953)

Violin Sonata No. 2 (2000)

Wilhelm Peterson-Berger

Violin Sonata in A minor (so far recorded only in cello transcription [23])

Gabriel Pierné

Sonata for violin (or flute), Op. 36

Walter Piston

Violin Sonata (1939) ([24])

Sonatina for violin and harpsichord (1945) ([25])

Quincy Porter

two violin sonatas (and a No. 0 posthumously published)

Francis Poulenc

Violin Sonata (1943)

Gerhard Präsent

Sonata del Gesù op. 35 (1997–99)

Sergei Prokofiev

Sonata for two violins in C major, Op. 56

Violin Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op. 80 (1946)

Violin Sonata No. 2 in D major, Op. 94 (transcribed from flute sonata)

Sonata for solo violin in D major, Op. 115 (can also be played by massed unison ensemble.)

R

Joachim Raff

Violin Sonata in E minor, Op. 73

Violin Sonata in A major, Op. 78

Violin Sonata in D major, Op. 128

Violin Sonata in G minor Chromatische, Op. 129 (One movement)

Violin Sonata in C minor, Op. 145

Maurice Ravel

early violin sonata

Violin Sonata in G major

Alan Rawsthorne

Violin Sonata (1958)

Max Reger

9 violin sonatas with piano, several unaccompanied (four in op 42, seven in op 91)

Violin Sonata No. 1 in D minor, Op. 1

Violin Sonata No. 2 in D major, Op. 3

Violin Sonata No. 3 in A major, Op. 41

Violin Sonata No. 4 in C major, Op. 72 (gave rise to a scandal at its premiere with a work by Ludwig Thuille)

Violin Sonata No. 5 in F-sharp minor, Op. 84

Violin Sonata No. 6 in D minor, Op. 103b/1

Violin Sonata No. 7 in A major, Op. 103b/2

Violin Sonata No. 8 in E minor, Op. 122

Violin Sonata No. 9 in C minor, Op. 139

(violin version of the clarinet sonata in B-flat major, Op. 107 sometimes included, and the sonatas Op. 103b are sometimes not.)

Carl Reinecke

Violin Sonata in E minor, Op. 116

Ottorino Respighi

Violin Sonata in B minor

Josef Rheinberger

Violin Sonata in E-flat major, Op. 77 (1874)

Violin Sonata in E minor, Op. 105 (1877)

George Rochberg

Violin Sonata

Guy Ropartz

several violin sonatas : No. 1 in D minor (1907), No. 2 in E major (1917), No. 3 in A major (1927)

John Luke Rose

Violin sonata op.28 (1973)

Nikolai Roslavets

Violin Sonatas 1-6

Albert Roussel

Violin Sonata No. 1 in D minor, Op. 11

Violin Sonata No. 2 in A major, Op. 28

Edmund Rubbra

Violin Sonata No. 1, Op. 11 (1925)

Violin Sonata No. 2, Op. 31 (1931)

Violin Sonata No. 3, Op. 133 (premiered 1968)

Anton Rubinstein

Violin Sonata in G major, Op. 13

Violin Sonata in A minor, Op. 19

Violin Sonata in B minor, Op. 98

S

Camille Saint-Saëns

Violin Sonata in D minor, Op. 75 (1885)

Violin Sonata in E flat major, Op. 102 (1896)

Philipp Scharwenka

Violin Sonata in B minor, Op. 110 (by 1900)

Xaver Scharwenka

Violin Sonata in D minor, Op. 2

Florent Schmitt

Sonate libre en deux parties enchaînées (ad modum clementis aquæ) Op.68, vn, pf (1918–19)

Alfred Schnittke

Violin Sonatas Nos. 1, 2, 3

Othmar Schoeck

Violin Sonata, Op. 16

Violin Sonata, Op. 46

Violin Sonata, WoO 22 (information from a recent Claves CD release informational listing [26])

Franz Schubert

Violin Sonatinas in D major, A minor, G minor

Violin Sonata in A major

Ervin Schulhoff

Violin Sonata Op.7 (1913)

Violin Sonata No.2 (1927)

Robert Schumann

Violin Sonata No. 1 in A minor, Op. 105 (1851)

Violin Sonata No. 2 in D minor, Op. 121 (1851)

collaboration with Johannes Brahms and Albert Dietrich in the F-A-E Sonata for Joseph Joachim (1853)

Violin Sonata No. 3 in A minor – third and fourth movements from the F-A-E sonata (1853)

Roger Sessions

Sonata for Solo Violin

Michael Jeffrey Shapiro

Violin Sonata No. 1 (1974)

Violin Sonata No. 2 (2009)

Alexander Shchetynsky

Sonata for Violin and Piano (1990)

Sonata for Solo Violin (2009)

Dmitri Shostakovich

Violin Sonata, Op. 134 (1968)

Jean Sibelius

Violin Sonata in F major, JS 178 (1889)

Robert Simpson

Sonata for Violin and Piano, in two movements (1984)

Fredrik Sixten

Sonata for violin and piano

Nikos Skalkottas

Sonata for solo violin (1925)

2nd Violin Sonata (1940)

Sonatinas nos. 1–4 (1928–35)

Ethel Smyth

Violin Sonata in A minor, Op. 7 (published 1887) (Not mentioned in the list of works linked to in the article but recorded on Troubadisc and noted in published articles- Dale's in Oct. 1949 Music & Letters.)

Louis Spohr

Sonata for Violin and Harp in B-flat major, Op. 16

Sonata for Violin and Harp in E-flat major, Op. 113

Sonata for Violin and Harp in E-flat major, Op. 114

Sonata for Violin and Harp in A-flat major, Op. 115

Sonata for Violin and Harp in C minor, WoO. 23

Charles Villiers Stanford

Violin Sonata No. 1 in D, Op. 11, 1877? (notes for another recording give 1880)

Violin Sonata No. 2 in A, Op. 70, 1898

Sonata for Violin with Piano Accompaniment, Op. 165, No. 1, 1919 (Lost)

Sonata for Violin with Piano Accompaniment, Op. 165, No. 2, 1919 (Lost)

Wilhelm Stenhammar

Violin Sonata in A minor, Op. 19 (1899/1900)

Richard Strauss

Violin Sonata in E-flat major, Op. 18 (1887)

Karol Szymanowski

Violin Sonata in D minor, Op. 9 (1904)

T

Germaine Tailleferre

two violin sonatas (first from 1921; the second, from 1951 a transcription of her violin concerto)

Sergei Taneyev

Violin Sonata in A minor

Giuseppe Tartini

Devil's Trill sonata and many others

Georg Philipp Telemann

Canonic Sonatas for Two Violins

Eduard Tubin

Violin Sonata No. 1 (1936)

Violin Sonata No. 2 in Phrygian key (1949)

Solo violin sonata (1962)

Joaquín Turina

Sonate Espagnole (1908)

Sonata No.1, Op. 51

Sonata No.2, Op. 82

V

Ralph Vaughan Williams

Violin Sonata in A minor

Carlos Veerhoff

Violin sonata op.47 (1982)

Louis Vierne

Violin Sonata in G minor, Op. 23 (1905-6? Premiered 1908.)(Catalog of Vierne's music)

Giovanni Battista Viotti

Six published sonatas for violin and bass, Op. 4 (about 1788), six without Opus number. (Recorded on Dynamic S2002-4)

Antonio Vivaldi

Twelve sonatas (Op. 2), six sonatas (Op. 5) and other various, such as the recently (1970s) discovered 'Manchester Sonatas'. Also the Op. 1 twelve sonatas, though these are for two violins and technically are trio sonatas.

Georg Joseph Vogler

Six Sonatas Op. 3

W

Henry Walford Davies

Violin Sonata No. 1 in E flat major (1893–95)

Violin Sonata No. 2 in A major (1893–95)

Violin Sonata No. 3 in E minor, Op. 5 (1894)

Violin Sonata No. 4 in D minor, Op. 7 (1896)

Violin Sonata No. 5 in F major (1899)

William Walton

Violin Sonata (1949/rev 1950)

Carl Maria von Weber

6 violin sonatas, J 99-104, Op. 10: F, D minor, G, E flat, A major-minor, C (also played as flute sonatas.)

Mieczysław Weinberg

a violin sonatina, five sonatas with piano, and three solo sonatas

Herman Whitfield III

Violin Sonata No. 1 (2003)

Violin Sonata No. 2 (2008)

Violin Sonata No. 3 (2010)

Charles-Marie Widor

Violin Sonata No. 1, Op. 50 ("sonata for piano and violin", 1881)

Violin Sonata No. 2, Op. 79 (1907 rev. 1937)

Józef Wieniawski

Violin Sonata (1860)

Stefan Wolpe

Violin Sonata (1949)

Charles Wuorinen

Sonata for Violin and Piano (1988)

Y

Eugène Ysaÿe

Six Sonatas for solo violin, Op. 27

Z

Carlo Zuccari

12 Sonate per violino é basso ò cembalo Op. 1 (Milano 1747)